Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-14
=, RED and BLACK.
Red for the Blood Stains That Grim
son the Green Fields of the Fair
State of Indiana.
Black For the ChRrred Remsins Of
Thirty Bodies Whose Souls Have
Gene to q RailIess Heaven.
Fast Trains, Aye Quick TO Bob Poor
Humanity OF the Vital Spark.
Somebody Blunders
ANOTHER cHATswoRTH HORROR.

CHICAGO, ILL Oct. 1.-An accident
occurred on the Chicago and Atlantic
Railway last night nesr Kouts, Ind, in
which some fifteen persons were killed.
A fast freight ran into the rear of q pas
senger telescoping two cars. At the gen
eral office of the road here no informa-
ton on the subject can be had.
Later reports received here are to the
effect that
TWENTY FIVE PEOPLE WERE KILLED
and large number hurt. The catas-
trophe occurred at Kouts, small station
tiffy-five miles from here. 1t is inferred
that the ill-fated train was the passenger
from the east due in Chicago this morn
ing. A relief expedition was organized
by railroad officials here and sent to The
scene and other help was to be hurried
forward rs soon as possible. Officials of
the company refuse the slightest scrap Of
information. AS nearly as can be judged
the horror occurred between ) and 6
O'Clock this morning. Telegram received
here at noon said:
TEN DEAD BODIES
had already been found in the wreck and
the men conducting the CHASTITY work
were unable to say how many corpses
were still in the debris. In addition to
the killed the telegram said d list had
been prepared showing injured to the
number Of at least twenty-f0ur persons.
THE NEWS AT INDIANAPOLIS.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Oct. 1l.-Advices
from the scene Of the wreck on the Chi
cago and Atlantic Railway are meagre.
The train that was telescoped
had stopped for the Panhandle
crossing when the fast freight
dashed into the rear of the passenger
train, which was Que in Chicago at 8
O'Clock, and the accident occurred at
O'Clock, Seven, cars in all are said to
have been consumed by fire, including a
Pullman sleeper. Fifteen persons were
killed and the same number burt.
TIE HORRORS PORTRAYED.
KoUTs, IND, Oct IL The worst hor-
rors OF Chstsworth were duplicated here
to-day. Dozens of blood-stained smoke
grimed dead and dying men, women and
children, victims Of railroad carelessness
and blunder, literally crowded the village
station house, the hotels, ard every other
available place in the vicinity, while 800
yards down the tracks Of the Chicago
and Atlsntic Railway, near lonely
water tanks, piles Of fearfully
tangled debris mark the spot where the
collision seldom equaIled for terrible re-
suits occurred. The east bound xpress
that left Chicago last night with great
load OF passengers had without a mo-
ment's warning during temporary wait
been smashed into from behind by a
heavily loaded freight
PyUNGING MADLY FORWARD
In the darkness in hurrying 20 get dressed
meat to the markets of the seaboard.
Some part of the machinery OF the pas
serger engine had been thrown out of
order during the run from Chic:go, bat q
little stop at the water tank would make
it al right, it was thought, and the stop was
made. Suddenly ous OF the darkness be-
hind cane the fash Of the headlight,
the rush and rattle of wheels and then
the crash. Just as at Castsworth the
sleeping car now got in it's deadly work,
the large frame WORK of the sleeper was
transformed into q huge catapult pushed
mercilessly forward by the freight. II
crushed into the cars smashing their
light timber and making the work Of
destruction complete. The wreck
QUICKLY TOOK FIRE
and the sight of the shrieking victims AND
the dancing flames was one never TO be
forgotten To-day on his bed of agony
at little hotel at Kouts the engineer OF
the passenger train told the
following story Of the disae
ter: ave passed No. 40 at
BoongroVe on time and started for Kouts
| No. 50 pulled out of the station in less
than two minutes, when they should have
waited much longer. When we were well
away from town we could see her lights
but little way behind. We were not
running very fast, because the engineer
was on one side. We had broken the &C.
centric strApp and were running one pail
I Of wheels, having been forced to discon
meet the other pair, which were running
loose. OF course the accident held oul
speed down little, but we had no ides
that the engineer of No. 69 would have
any difficulty in keeping of oul
heels. The last time I looked be-
hind there was ample room between
US. We stopped at Boone Grove water
tank, and were there only minute before
they struck u.s."
Conductor Gaghepen was then forced tc
|
more particulars.
REPORTERS ON THE GROUND.
This afternoon when the reporters, who
had been long delayed in reaching Kouts
owing to the secretiveness OF the railroad
officials, began at last to arrive there was
little in the aspect of the village to indi
cate the calamity that had so recently
taken place. ALI the dead bodies haC
been carefully
| REMOVED FROM SIGHT.
Only two wounded were still in vii
lage and local employees OF the roaC
we're deaf and DUMB to all seekers ate
information. The coroner had beer
obliged to go to Huntington, over fit.
miles distant, to obtain statements o
witnesses, ard the villagers seemed
wholly a. sea about the disaster. Abou
the only person able and willing to tel
the details OF the horror was DR.
C. W. Mckee. The Doctor Il
a9 prosperous looking intelligen
NAN Of sbout thirty seven, who promptll
responded IL The dead Of night that b
take handcsr and go to the scene of tn,
wreck, three miles from his residence
DR.. Mckee rendered noble service. HI
had scant time to give his experience i,
detail, but stated that TO the best OF hi
knowledge it would not be over sz<inf
| the facts to say that the collision had hos
| the lives OF fully thirty persons. It2Rl
shortly after l O'Clock this norma
! when he reached ti,p wreck and heat ollf5